Improvement in devices for oiling wagon-wheels



UNITED STATES "PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MAUS, or DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVE MENT'INDEVICES FOR OILIN G WAGON-WHEELS.v

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 201,259, dated March12, 1878; application filed December 8, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES MAUs, of

Danville, in the county of Montour and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and valuable Improvement in Devices for OilingWagon-Wheels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of tenonsand fellies of wagon-wheels, and wheels for all kinds of vehicles, withlinseed-oil, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The annexed drawing, to which reference is made, fully illustrates myinvention.

A represents a stove constructed for the purpose of oiling the tenonsand fellies of wheels, having a fire-box, B, with grate (J, andfire-brick D at the sides. It is intended for burning either wood orcoal. 1f wood is used, the fire-brick D at each end of the grate istaken out and the side door Fl is used for putting in the wood. For coalthe fire-bricks are left in, and the coal is put "in through the smalldoor G at the top and front of the stove. The slide H in the hearth canbe drawn out or closed to suit the draft. In the back end of the stove,below the stove-pipe collar J, is a damper, I, which can be partially orentirely closed.

The stove A is open on the top for the large pan K to sit in, said panhaving an offset, a, which sits on top of the stove, and the bottom ofthe pan projects down in the stove.

Fitting in the large pan are four small pans, L, having circularbottoms, and two flanges, b d, at each end. The lower flanges I) lie onthe shoulder or offset of the large pan K, and the top flanges d rest onthe top edge of the large'pan. The small pans L can be moved backwardand forward to suit the differentsized wheels.

On each side of the large pan K, from the top of the stove, rise fouruprights or standards, M M, which are perforated with numer ous holes,as shown, to receive pins 0 e, for holding levers N N in place, saidlevers having sockets formed on or attached to them, or mortises throughthem, for passing over the standards. By means of the perforations inthe standards and the pins the levers may be raised or lowered to suitdifferent-sized wheels.

Each lever has a hole in the center for the insertion of a round rod,it, having on one end a nut, t, to keep it in place. The pins 0 arechained fast to the standards, so that they cannot get lost, and theyare always ready at hand to be inserted.

The large pan K is filled with water, and the small pans'L havelinseed-oil put in them. The wheels 0 are put in placethe two large onone rod, h, and the two small ones on the other rod. Each rod h is putthrough one of the middle levers N, then the two wheels put on the rod,and then the outside lever, after which the burr or nut t is put on andscrewed up. Each set or pair of levers, with the wheels between them, isthen lifted up and placed upon the standards M, and held by the pins 6at such a height that the wheels will not touch the bottom of the pansL. The water in the large pan K is then set to boiling, which will heatthe oil in the small pans, so that it will penetrate the pores of thewood. When one part is completely saturated with oil, the wheels areturned so as to bring another part in the oil, and so on until theentire felly and all the tenons have been oiled completely. The leversare then raised, so that the wheels will be out of the oil, to allow theoil on them to drain off, after which they are taken out and another setput on and manipulated in the same manner.

With this mode of oiling there is no danger of burning the oil' norcharring the fellies. It makes the oil of the proper heat to penetratethe wood. The stove answers at the same time the purpose of heating theshop in the winter-time.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- i Y 1.As a means for saturating the fellies and tenons of a wheel, thecombination of a stove,

levers N, and rod h, with nut i, in combination with a stove, A,water-pan K, and oil-pans L,

substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES MAUS.

Witnesses:

ZACHARIAH MARKLE, STEPHEN J oHNsoN.

